Queering the Homeboy Aesthetic.
The article presents an essay that examines the appearance of a gay homeboy aesthetic among the Latinos. The homeboy aesthetic is a style among the Latinos whose visibility originates from the interaction of materiality and fantasy. It is considered to be the subject of admiration and fear since it...
| Publicado en: | Aztlan: Journal of Chicano Studies Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 127 - 138 |
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| Formato: | Essay |
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Chicano Studies Research Center
Fall2006
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| Sumario: | The article presents an essay that examines the appearance of a gay homeboy aesthetic among the Latinos. The homeboy aesthetic is a style among the Latinos whose visibility originates from the interaction of materiality and fantasy. It is considered to be the subject of admiration and fear since it has been embraced and resisted by the working-class' sensibility and marker of cultural differences. It has undeniably affects the U.S. cultural imagination specially in media. |
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